" To
enhance undergraduate learning in the liberal arts by
promoting use of library special collections"
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Institutions
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SALMON BROOK
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
208 Salmon Brook Street
(Routes 10 and 202), P.O. Box 840
Granby,
CT 06035
Phone:
(860) 653-3965
Fax: N/A
E-mail: N/A
Web site: http://www.salmonbrookhistorical.org/
Contact:
Carol Laun, Archivist / Genealogist
Access
hours:
Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am to noon, or by appointment.
Access restrictions:
Materials can be used at the discretion of the archivist. Reproduction fees:
25 cents per page.
Other
provisions:
Alarm system.
Other information:
The Library of Congress has all of the Society’s research documents listed.
The Society is a participant in the Connecticut State Library Newspaper
Project.
Collection
Description: The collections focus on Granby
history and genealogy including:
- Civil War letters
- 19th century local business account books (including over
50 from a general store)
- World War I Home Guard
- Granby school and government documents and account books
- Photographs, scrapbooks, autograph albums
- Deeds, letters, wills
- Masons in Granby
- 19th century clothing collection
- Quilts
- Spinning equipment
- Victorian toy room
- 1732 historic Abijah Rowe house furnished to ca.1800 period
- 1790 historic Weed-Enders house with a Victorian parlor
- 1870 Cooley School furnished to period
- 1910 Tobacco Barn Museum with a multitude of exhibits providing a microcosm
of Granby history: Native American artifacts, Civil War, church, general store,
1890 kitchen, businesses such as dressmaker, shoemaker, cabinet maker, blacksmith,
cider mill, creamery, sawmill, ice cutting, harness maker. Also farm tools,
wagon, sleighs, horse-drawn glass-sided hearse.
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